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Article: Barbs Traded on Va. Voter Drives
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- The Washington Post
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- July 29, 2008
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The chairman of the Virginia Republican Party alleged Monday that
efforts to register new voters have resulted in a "coordinated and
widespread effort to commit voter fraud," and Democrats responded by
accusing the GOP of trying to suppress minority voting.
In a conference call with reporters, Del. Jeffrey M. Frederick (R-
Prince William), the chairman of the state party, seized on the
arrests last week of three paid canvassers charged with submitting
false names on voter registration forms in Hampton.
The controversy comes during one of the most aggressive efforts
in a generation to register new voters, especially African
Americans, in Virginia.
Convinced that there are tens of thousands of ...